10. The Surface is a bad laptop
09. The Surface is an inferior tablet
08. Price; good luck selling any of these things for over $499
07. Lost in a sea of Android
06. What happens when Apple releases a $249 iPad mini?
05. The future is voice, not keyboard
04. Surface is a stupid name; Apple iPad’s perfectly integrated touch iOS/iPad is actually more like a surface than the Surface
03. Memories of Zune. How can anybody trust Microsoft after the Zune fiasco?
02. Microsoft brand has lost its cool factor

MacDailyNews Take: The Microsoft brand had a cool factor?

01. Steve Ballmer: The only explanation for Ballmer still being the CEO of Microsoft is that he must have photos on Bill Gates; I can’t come up with any other rational explanation

Delusional, mouth-powered-bulb-lighting, one-lucky-dorm-assignment, coattail-riding, monkey-boy-dancing, tongue-flapping, unqualified, bad-decision-making, crazy-ass… May he stay Microsoft’s CEO for as long as it takes!

WINDOWS 8 IS certain to send a ripple through apple stocks investor already worried if apple share has top MSFT has been a market mover.

the next time Apple fall Microsoft might just answer the call like they should have in the late 90’s when bill Gates was being converse by investors to acquire Apple computers. Microsoft might just do that next time and sell Apple patents to its partners.

For crying out loud, there will NOT be an iPad mini!!!!! There’s no need, it makes no sense, and complicates Apple’s product line which doesn’t have a glaring need for it.

Has anyone else noticed that these iPad mini rumors are tracking right along with the iPhone nano rumors? And now we’re talking about (some even demanding) a LARGER iPhone, and the talk about an iPhone nano has completely disappeared.

Bizlaw is right – absolutely zero need for a device sized between the current iPhone and the iPad. If electronic clutter in your automobile is what you want, your dashboard can easily accommodate a 9″ screen. If automakers were smart, they would offer nice docks for portables instead of embedding ANY electronics into their cars.

Apple needs to concentrate on incentivizing developers to use the capabilities of the units it has already created rather than flood the market with more derivatives. By and large, Mac and iOS software developers haven’t done a good job sandboxing or taking full advantage of multicore processing — 12 cores in the Mac Pros, most go unused. Nobody is taking full advantage of the Retina displays. Automakers have just started to get an inkling of what they can do with Siri, and they don’t know how to implement it at all. Thunderbolt isn’t taking off because Apple isn’t working with Intel to push it out. Mac Pros are languishing not because they aren’t capable, but because few software makers know what to do with 12-core machines.

Does Apple need more products? No. They need to teach people how to use the capabilities of the products that they already have.

I think you are right, but it would be a good idea for those of us who want to use it as a reader. For a tablet the iPad it great, as a reader it is too heavy. Having a 7″er would be great, now a lot (enough for Apple, I do not know) of people buy other crap because it is lighter and easier as a reader.

I remember when the iPad first came out how the Analyst all said it was a fail. Look want happened. I’m taking a wait and see approach. Just maybe, just maybe this will rise to the top displacing all the Android tables. Just like the Windows Phone 7 did.

Windows Phone 7 went to the top of something? When did that happen. Course with Windows Phone 8, not being backward compatible (who plans these stupid things) should kill Windows Phone, and Android fragmentation will eventually make supporting that a complete and total pain..

Products being panned and later turning out successful works for Apple, not Microsoft. The reason? Apple is the one driving the bus. Apple knows where these products are going, everyone else is madly madly so they can’t be as innovative. I’ll grant that Microsoft’s actual Tablet product is not nearly as copy cat as most others (just stupid) but they have no idea how or why they got here and they don’t know where their going.

Actually, the iPad was in development before the iPhone. Steve saw the test OS and wanted to scale it down to phone size, hence the iPhone. I’m curious if the iPad would’ve been such a hit had it not had the iPhone precede it, to which millions of people were already used to iOS and Apps and touch screen interfaces.

But yes, Apple actually plans ahead, they don’t do things for the sake of being different, but different and better.

Well, to get picky:
The Xbox has garnered some ‘cool’ because of particular games for it. That is, when one’s Xbox is not suffering from The Red Ring Of Death. Therefore, vicariously, the Xbox has attained some Cool Factor. Kind of creepy and undeserved.

I actually kinda like the name. My problem with MS is that I just don’t trust them. Already completely changing the foundations of WP is a perfect example. They just aren’t stable in their vision enough for me to invest in their ecosystem.

The point about the name was not that it’s stupid by its self but it’s stupid for this product. This product isn’t intended to be used as a surface most of the time. It’s intended to be used a pseudo laptop in an upright position.

M$ has a minipad something in the dash of some of the Ford and Lincoln cars. I understand its driving the sales of the cars into the cellar. I wonder what an iPad mini would do in its place designed and programed by Apple?